Kyle Machulis has been called the world’s leading authority on open-source teledildonics. He has worked as both designer and reverse-engineer on a wide range of interactive technologies, including sex toys, erotic furniture, personal health devices, self driving cars, electrostimulation systems, and biometric monitors. Machulis is the founder of Buttplug.io, a project to design, develop and promote open-source standards and software libraries for the control of intimate hardware.